Tevi Troy is a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Senior Scholar at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center, a best-selling presidential historian, and a former White House aide and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He is the author of five books, including Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump, which the Wall Street Journal listed as one of the five best political books of 2020. He is also the author of the forthcoming The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between American Titans of Industry and Commanders in Chief. As deputy secretary of HHS from 2007–09, he was the second in command and chief operating officer of the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a $716 billion annual budget and 67,000 employees.